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The community has been privately owned ever since, passing between another half-dozen owners before Gerald Freeman set his sights on it in 1984. But Freeman, a geologist, had scouted area mining sites for big companies for years, and he viewed Nipton as an opportunity to make a gamble of his own.Roxanne Lang was living in Malibu and dating Freeman at the time.The goal is to convince visitors to venture 12 miles off the busy highway that connects Southern California with Las Vegas.

In 2014, Desert Hot Springs, about 200 miles south of Nipton, was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy for a second time.Early headlines painted pictures of a coming cannabis utopia.But as reporters started digging into the company’s financial records and county policies banning marijuana businesses, the scheme was soon cast as doomed to fail or, worse, a media stunt aimed at artificially boosting share prices for the penny stock company.It would upgrade the quirky general store, one-room schoolhouse and RV park.It wants to reopen the Whistlestop Café, which has been shuttered since spring, and add more lodging, food options, a music venue and other amenities.

But Nipton would be the first community anywhere, it seems, entirely owned by a cannabis company.